Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Roald Dahl |
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Birthdate | September 13, 1916 |
Birth Place | Cardiff, Wales |
Age (in 2024) | 108 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Roald Dahl is best known as Children's Author who has born on September 13, 1916 in Cardiff, Wales. Currently, Roald Dahl is 108 years, 2 months and 8 days old. Roald Dahl will celebrate 109th birthday on Saturday, 13th of September 2025. Below the countdown to Roald Dahl upcoming birthday.
Welsh-born novelist, screenwriter, and fighter pilot who authored such children's classics as James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, and Matilda. Many of his popular books, including The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Fantastic Mr. Fox, have been made into feature films.
He was involved in what he called the "Great Mouse Plot of 1924," in which he and a few other boys put a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers inside "a loathsome" woman's candy store. The conspirators were later caught by the school principal and struck with a cane, and Dahl was sent to boarding school. In 1939, Dahl became a pilot with the Royal Air Force.
His family gave him a Viking funeral, placing chocolates, a power saw, pencils, and his snooker cues in his coffin.
He grew up in Cardiff, Wales as the son of Norwegian-born parents. When his thirty-year marriage to actress Patricia Neal ended in divorce, Dahl wed second wife, Felicity Crosland. Dahl's first marriage produced five children: Olivia, Chantal, Theo, Ophelia, and Lucy.
Johnny Depp played Willy Wonka in the 2008 film adaptation of Dahl's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Roald Dahl is 108 years old today.
Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916 in Cardiff, Wales.
Roald Dahl zodiac sign is Virgo.
Roald Dahl was best known as Children's Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Roald Dahl's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1982 | Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board. |
1985 | Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games. |
1986 | A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city. |
1987 | Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning. |
1988 | Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure). |
1989 | Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu. |
1993 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy. |
1997 | A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33. |
2001 | Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks. |
2007 | The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. |
2007 | The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings. |
2008 | Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries. |
2008 | Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas. |
2013 | Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured. |
2018 | The Merrimack Valley gas explosions: One person is killed, 25 are injured, and 40 homes are destroyed when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions. |
1989 | The birth of Kenny Edwards, New Zealand rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (d. 2013) |
1989 | The birth of Thomas Müller, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of William Owusu, Ghanaian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Aoi Nakabeppu, Japanese model and actress |
1990 | The birth of Luciano Narsingh, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian gymnast |
1993 | The birth of Niall Horan, Irish singer |
1993 | The birth of Alice Merton, Irish-Canadian singer and songwriter |
1994 | The birth of Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Slovak tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Leonor Andrade, Portuguese singer |
1994 | The birth of Cameron Munster, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Jerry Tollbring, Swedish handball player |
1995 | The birth of João Carlos Almeida Leandro, Portuguese footballer |
1996 | The birth of Playboi Carti, American rapper |
2013 | The death of Robert J. Behnke, American biologist and academic (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Rick Casares, American football player (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian trade union leader and politician (b. 1950) |
2014 | The death of Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Helen Filarski, American baseball player (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Milan Galić, Serbian footballer (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Vivinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1961) |
2015 | The death of Erma Bergmann, American baseball player (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1955) |
2016 | The death of Jonathan Riley-Smith, British historian (b. 1938) |
2017 | The death of Pete Domenici, American politician, senator of New Mexico (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Eddie Money, American musician (b. 1949) |
2022 | The death of Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (b. 1930) |
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